{
  "id": "sat.posture",
  "term": "sat",
  "sense": "posture",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "sat",
  "domain": "action.deed",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to stay down in a position",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "persist.continue",
      "position.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the staying persists in a down position",
    "novel_properties": [
      "supported weight",
      "balanced posture"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station remained in low Earth orbit for over 20 years, continuously counteracting atmospheric drag with periodic reboosts.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron in the human prefrontal cortex sustained a depolarized state for over 30 seconds during working memory tasks, as recorded in patch-clamp studies.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest's South Col camp stayed occupied through the winter of 2020, the longest continuous human presence at that altitude on record.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "persist.continue",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sat"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sat.posture"
}